Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour sat down with Vogue magazine. Courtesy of Getty Gird your loins: Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour have teamed up for Vogue‘s latest cover story, ahead of the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2.
The conversation, moderated by Barbie and Little Women filmmaker Greta Gerwig (who is also directing Streep in her Netflix Narnia adaptation), was published on Tuesday, alongside photos of Streep and Wintour posing together in a private car and corporate elevator at a Runway-esque office.
Fans of the original 2006 film will know that Streep’s ice-cold magazine boss, Miranda Priestly, is loosely based on Wintour, who was editor-in-chief of American Vogue from 1988 to 2025. The Briton does acknowledge it’s “an honor” to be played by Streep — “however distant Miranda is from myself.”
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At the top of the interview, Gerwig asks about how we can present ourselves through fashion. “For men, there’s a clear code: You dress for the job you want. But for women, dressing has always been more nebulous… Do you think about how women are meant to dress to communicate power?” she poses to the two women.
Wintour downplays needing to wear a suit to feel powerful and immediately cites Michelle Obama as an example, as well as New York’s new first lady, Rama Duwaji, wife of Zohran Mamdani. “I’m full of admiration for [Duwaji] because she looks so cool and wears a lot of vintage — young and modern and also entirely herself. To be fair, Melania Trump also always looks like herself when she dresses,” adds the fashion mogul.
Streep jumps in, saying, “I have so many thoughts about this. I think the most… powerful message that our current first lady sent was in the coat that said ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ when she was going to see migrant children who were incarcerated. All dress is about expressing yourself, but we’re also subject to larger historical and political sweeps of expectation.”
What happens when you put Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour—the two Mirandas, as it were—in a room together? A wide-ranging conversation about fashion, family, friendship, and yes, the forthcoming sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada.” “In terms of Miranda, and coming back to that… pic.twitter.com/apaEAk79MA
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) April 7, 2026
“I’m stunned at how women in power have to have bare arms on television while men are covered in shirts and ties or a suit. There’s an apology built into women. They have to show their smallness,” the Oscar winner adds.
Melania Trump visited the New Hope Children’s Shelter in McAllen, Texas, in Trump’s first term, and later told the press that the jacket was “for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me.”
Also in the interview, Wintour lauds Streep for her acting prowess, and admitted to feeling unsure when she heard The Devil Wears Prada 2 was a-go. “When I heard rumors that this new film might be happening, I called Meryl to ask if it was true. I knew she would tell me if it was going to be all right,” says Wintour. “She hadn’t yet read the script, so she said she’d call me back. And that’s what she did. She read the script. She called me back and said, ‘Anna, I think it’s going to be all right.’ She told me very little about what happens in the film, but I trusted her implicitly.”
The women agree that being 76 years of age is an advantage in today’s world — “I can definitely say that from being on set with Meryl, everybody sits up a little straighter when you’re there,” adds Gerwig — though with that experience comes inevitable loss. The filmmaker asks Streep about the deaths of her frequent collaborators Mike Nichols and Robert Redford.
Streep replies, touching her chest: “Mike is so here. That’s the great consolation of getting older. It’s unbearable when every week somebody’s dying that I love, but you realize, ‘Okay, you’ve got to swallow her. You’ve got to swallow him. You’ve got to have all of them. They are in here, you’re going to use them, and they’re going to live.’ The indelible people don’t go. We don’t lose people. We keep them and they keep working.”
The women then bond over being grandmothers — Streep to six under age 6, and Wintour to four, as well as four step-grandchildren — and balancing their work alongside family time: “It’s just grabbing seconds, just grabbing everything you can of them, with the knowledge of how completely fleeting it all is and how rapidly time goes,” says Streep.
The interview rounds off by discussing what we can expect from a new era for Andy (Anne Hathaway), Emily (Emily Blunt), and Nigel (Stanley Tucci) in DWP2, with Streep saying Miranda is “less worried about what anybody thinks” in regard to her style.
Gerwig asks about her comments on the first film — that she felt “as if you couldn’t quite hang out with them the way that they could hang out with each other.”
“Oh, they all had a fabulous time,” responds Streep. “And I felt like I had to have some distance. I do like a hang, I mean, that’s almost how you pick the things, like, ‘How good is the hang going to be?’ But I really consciously pulled back, and I was sitting in my trailer just miserable the whole time.”
Gerwig responds: “When we had a wrap party for Narnia, I realized nobody wanted me there. I was like, ‘Nobody can have any fun as long as I’m there,'” before Wintour says: “I know that feeling.”
Streep adds that the film is “real and triumphant.” The Devil Wears Prada 2 hits theaters May 1.
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